María Luisa Villamarín López

Professor of Procedural Law at the Complutense University of Madrid. She has a degree and a PhD from the Complutense with an Extraordinary Award for her Degree (1998) and PhD (2002), respectively. Since the beginning of her university career, she has researched different aspects of civil and criminal proceedings, works that have been reflected in her five monographs, and in more than twenty chapters of books and scientific articles. Her work on European procedural issues stands out, such as her work on the Regulations for obtaining evidence or on the European Order for the Retention of Accounts. In order to carry out these publications, he has undertaken stays in prestigious foreign research centres such as the MPI of Freiburg and Hamburg (thanks to a DAAD scholarship), Harvard University (thanks to a scholarship from the Real Colegio Complutense), UCLA (from which she is a is research fellow; stay financed by a Del Amo Grant), Oxford and Munich. She has continuously participated in more than a dozen competitive Spanish and European research projects since joining the Procedural Law Department in 1998. She has been a member of the EJTN for two years representing the Spanish Centre for Judicial Studies. Along with her research work, she carries out teaching tasks at the UCM Law School in Bachelor's and Master's degrees, having obtained very positive evaluations in recent years and a recognition of academic excellence in 2020. In the field of neuroscience, in addition to giving lectures on the subject in various forums, she published a monograph on its application to criminal proceedings (Neuroscience and the search for truth and deception in criminal proceedings) in 2014. This work will be published in Portuguese in May 2021.